Thought and thinker are reality within the universe.

Thought and thinker are reality within the universe. The thinker and the thought exist within the universe. The man and his experience of the universe are reality within the waking experience.  The waking experience is mere illusion on the ultimate standpoint.    Therefore, the individual experiences are part of the illusion. Thus thought and the thinker are part of the illusion.

Positive and negative thoughts and the thinker are made of same material.  Whether one thinks rightly or wrongly he is thinking as person. The thoughts will not rise without the form.  Without the form there are neither thoughts nor the thinker.  Thus positive or negative thinking or right or wrong thinking are part of the physical existence and nothing to do with ultimate truth.    Experience is prior to thought. Only in waking or dream one gets thought. Therefore one has to mentally trace the source of the waking or dream experience in order to realize the waking experience is as unreal as dream. 

Only in religion and yogic path one has to follow and practise. Everyone thinks he has to follow some guru or god men.  But all these methods are full of frustrations and give no real satisfaction. Reality has no method. Illusion has many methods, many problems and many concepts. To overcome illusion, or concepts, one should know the source of the mind and from where does this mind arise? “When the mind is there the universe is there. Absent of mind absent of universe.  Absent of universe is absent of duality. Absent of duality is absent of thoughts.  Thus until one becomes aware of what is mind and what is the substance of the mind it is impossible to assimilate nondual truth.

 To know the nondual Reality, deeper thinking is required. The thinking faculty ceases and becomes still when it reaches the source of the mind. One has to realize the waking entity is false self within the false experience from the ultimate standpoint.

 Where there is no experience then there is no duality where there no duality then there is no second thing exist other than the self-awareness.  Therefore seeker has to go deeply in Ramna’s Path and trace and overcome the obstacles. For the sincere and serious seekers the inner Ramanas grace will guide until the ignorance vanishes and he becomes aware of the fact that the diversity [universe or Illusion] is mere mirage created out of consciousness [Atman].    

Upanishads declare: the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge

Upanishads declare:-  the human goal is to acquire Self-Knowledge and they indicate the personal gods, scriptures, worship and rituals are not the means to Self –Knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana, then why anyone should indulge in it. The religion, concept of individualized god and scriptures are greatest obstacle to realize non-dual truth or self-realization, because they are based on false self.  Therefore, one has to search the ultimate truth without losing himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, he should indulge in deeper self-search and assimilate and realize it.  

Seekers goal is towards Self-knowledge and noting other then it. Therefore, guru is needed in religious and yogic paths which are meant for the people who are not searching for truth but they are searching for worldly comforts and temporary peace in this physical existence.  They fear of losing their physical identity and all that is connected to the physical identity. When one realizes the physical identity [ego] is false self and the true identity is the soul, which is in the form consciousness, then he realizes that the fear factor is limited to the false self within the false experience. When the self is not form but formless consciousness all the burden and bondage of the duality is mere mirage created out of consciousness.

How does one get this self-knowledge? What is meant by self- knowledge? These are the questions which seeker has to find answer for.

Merely logical methods are insufficient for inquiry because they will not yield absolute certainty. One needs to indulge in deeper self-search.

If one thinks authoritarianism as a source of knowledge means he is in the grip of orthodox slavery. People who compile philosophical books on a basis of quoting from others as authorities are compiling useless venture, from ultimate standpoint. But in practical life in practical world, for empirical purposes authorities are acceptable, because they are experts in such specialized knowledge.

It is possible to get some knowledge through intuition, as we do through various other sources, as the senses, etc. but the question will still arise, “Is this true knowledge?” Even sense observation must be checked for truth because one has to get intuition based on nonduality not the dualistic based intuition. 

In deeper self-search arise from doubts. Inquiry implies doubt, proof, evidence, so that even if God were to come and say that He is God, one would inquire into the truth of the statement.

People are overawed by doctrines enunciated upon authority of some sage or saint or institution or scripture. But one has to verify all the facts from every point of view: How does he or it know? Truth must be tested. If it is true, it will survive the test and will bear proof, but everything else must inevitably find the props of priest- crafted authority to support it.

How is one to know that this is Truth? The test has to be universally applicable, which means--will it be true in every other part of the universe, will it be true in until form, time and space exists.

Will it be true for all people who pursue deeper self-search to the utmost extent? An idea often appears to be a reality when it is not properly inquired into. Even if whole population of the universe declare that this world is the ultimate reality, their assertion is of less value than the assertions of a Gnani who have inquired into the nature and reality of the universe and found it to be mere mirage created out of consciousness.

Ultimate Truth takes things as they are. If there is any uncertainty it is not truth. It does not deal with speculations and imaginations, such as “this universe is illusion,” "the next world is around us” etc. one has not the scientific attitude because they take things as presented to them. They have rather the emotional and sentimental attitude. The right attitude is to verify all the facts, to see a problem in them, something to investigate deeply and inquire into them.

Truth must be verifiable; it is no use saying "the truth has intuitively reveled to me." It must be possible for everyone to see also. Unless it is verifiable it is of no value.  Those who lack the capacity to doubt are not fit for pursuit of truth.

The reason has to be based on the formless self not on the ego, which is false self, within the false experience. Analogical, inductive and deductive reasoning are good only within limitation of duality; none are absolutely and universally infallible because they must work under certain conditions.  The orthodox says: Believe! and one will be saved. The Gnani says: Doubt! and one  will be saved.

Many people have the desire to know the truth  but the capacity to understand is limited. The result is that people resolve the conflict by jumping to the first and simplest and easiest conclusion as the correct one, and smugly but unjustifiably thinking “They know”: Thus they commit the fallacy of primitivity.

Seeker of truth should always need proof of every teacher, pundit or yogi for their declaration. He has to verify on his own without indulging in pursuit of argument whether they are based on dualistic view point or whether they are based on non-dualistic view point.   Accept only non-dualistic viewpoint which is based on the formless self by accepting dualistic vie point, which is based on the form as self. 

If the mystics says  that one can know spirit, ultimate  truth, nondual  reality, etc. only by intuition and not by intellect the  reply is :  one  can one know everything in duality  alone; when one is asleep  he cannot know anything by intuition, because there is no duality there.

 This proves that if there be such a faculty as intuition is operative within  the realm of duality , and when yogis  talks of discovering the supra-mental consciousness, who or what is there, to discover it because the mind or duality  is not there? It is an absurd statement.

The psychological writings of mystics and the pseudo-scientific explanations of yogis are not inferences from the facts of their mystic experiences but mere imaginations because any such experience is possible only within the duality, which is mere illusion.

Only the ignorant mystic claims he has cosmic consciousness implies that he has gone to the other planet and seen that this consciousness was also there; he has gone to the galaxy seen it there, such claims are mere hallucination based on the false self.

Even to this day many people believe in the mythological stories to be true; that is because they have not got perfect reasoning faculty.

Until a doctrine or claim is proved to be to be true it is of no value. Until then one must not accept it. Most of the people are ignorant and trust the people who claim to know God. They are deceived by the fallacy of authority, whether it be outer or inner, and do not judge for themselves as to what is true or not. Mentality of people is still primitive or infancy stages. They are unable to think beyond form, time and space.

Logic leads to practical truth; it cannot lead one to ultimate truth because logic is based on physicality. Here reason alone can guide one to ultimate end. When logic is applied beyond its proper limits, i.e. practical life within the practical world, it becomes absurd.

 The dualists are examples of this absurdity, when they say one cannot have a watch without a watchmaker and hence a world without a creator. It is a misapplication of such logic to apply it to matters outside its proper sphere of use.

It is impossible to have a mind which is non-logical, i.e. without some kind of logic. Even mentally challenged people try to draw inferences, only they are illogical, i.e. draw them wrongly. Everyone thinks logically or illogically, never non-logically. But the intellectual often confounds logic with reason.

Most people have inherited inborn tendency to believe in the supernatural, belongs to its weaknesses.

Nobody denies that mystics have their mystical experiences. But the question of their validity then arises because they have such mystical experiences within the waking experience but waking experience itself is mere illusion from ultimate stand point.  

Every man says “I know?” What does he know?  This ‘I’ know business is most dangerous.   Pursuit of truth deals with fact, truth and reality, not with religion, poetry and imagination. Hence it does not trouble itself with unseen heavens beyond this world but rather with this seen world and everything that is in it. Dualistic cults ask one believe in their theories and imagine, but in pursuit of truth the onus is on the propagator to prove such claims.

One who goes on telling of unseen planes which he has never seen, who goes on merely imagining and is unable to prove it when questioned, is really laying or hallucinating. .

In pursuit of truth one has to appeal to reason, and not to intuition, belief, authority etc.  Because of its universality, because all over the world and in all times there is only a single rational truth, because reason is the only way to obtain worldwide agreement amongst all peoples, races ,religion, cult and creed   nations, groups etc. Faith, intuition etc. varies tremendously in its imagined doctrines, scripture is interpreted by every man as he likes, but reason cannot vary in its truth.

One has to verify his own understanding and views are true by deeper self-search. Intuition when used by mystics and yogis means mere blah, blah based on the physical self or ego.

The Yogic exercises are useful in particle life within the practical world. If done in the proper way they have their own value for those whose, grasping faculty is not sharp enough. If yoga is considered as tool to Self-Realization, then they are being misled. Yoga is   helpful only in preparatory stages. When yoga regarded as an end, not a means then they become hindrances and errors for they cannot give truth.

Sri, Sankara says in VivekaChudamani   :-

56. Neither by Yoga, nor by Sankhya, nor by work, nor by learning, but by the realisation of one's identity with Brahman is Liberation possible, and by no other means.

58. Loud speech consisting of a shower of words, the skill in expounding the Scriptures, and likewise erudition - these merely bring on a little personal enjoyment to the scholar, but are no good for Liberation.

59. The study of the Scriptures is useless so long as the highest Truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest Truth has already been known.

60. The Scriptures consisting of many words are a dense forest which merely causes the mind to ramble. Hence men of wisdom should earnestly set about knowing the true nature of the Self.

61. For one who has been bitten by the serpent of Ignorance, the only remedy is the knowledge of Brahman. Of what avail are the Vedas and (other) Scriptures, Mantras (sacred formulae) and medicines to such a one?

62. A disease does not leave off if one simply utter the name of the medicine, without taking it; (similarly) without direct realisation one cannot be liberated by the mere utterance of the word Brahman.

63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman ? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

64. Without killing one’s enemies, and possessing oneself of the splendour of the entire surrounding region, one cannot claim to be an emperor by merely saying, ‘I am an emperor’.

65. As a treasure hidden underground requires (for its extraction) competent instruction, excavation, the removal of stones and other such things lying above it and (finally) grasping, but never comes out by being (merely) called out by name, so the transparent Truth of the self, which is hidden by Maya and its effects, is to be attained through the instructions of a knower of Brahman, followed by reflection, meditation and so forth, but not through perverted arguments.

66. Therefore the wise should, as in the case of disease and the like, personally strive by all the means in their power to be free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths.

67. The question that thou hast asked today is excellent, approved by those versed in the Scriptures, aphoristic, pregnant with meaning and fit to be known by the seekers after Liberation.

Pursuit of argument is not pursuit of truth. Agreeing and disagreeing with each other’s views will not yield nondual wisdom. Healthy discussion on the subject and humility and patience and friendly interaction will only help seeker in his inner journey.  Just by criticizing any masters or teachers of the past, the wisdom will not dawn. Many masters and their teaching of the past have contributed to seeking world in their own way.  Some may find some teachers view or teaching are inadequate and useless in quenching the spiritual thirst. It is for the seeker to highlight on what standpoint they are inadequate and useless and how they are blocking his realization.  Mutual respect to each other is necessary in spiritual interaction.

The path of religion, path of yoga and the path of wisdom were intended for different classes of people. The wisdom is for the advanced seekers of truth. It deals with the nature of the ultimate Truth and Reality. It is meant for superior aspirants who have inner urge to know the truth and it is not for those who are immersed in earthly desires.

To understand, assimilate the nondual truth needs a totally different kind of approach. There is no need to convince others but one has to get firm conviction of the truth for himself. If one is receptive and sharp he will be able to grasp it. Even Upanishads clearly declares:-

Mediocre minds waste their time on arguing about unimportant matters. Accumulation of scriptural knowledge is dangerous in pursuit of truth. Seeker has to establish in the truth of Non-duality by sheer reasoning alone. Seeker has to begin by defining "What is real?" "What is unreal?" etc, because that is the right way to discuss, understand and assimilate self-knowledge.  Thus seeker has to remove all the blockades which are blocking his realization. 

 Katha Upanishad:

  This Ataman cannot be attained by the study of the Vedas, or by intelligence, or by much hearing of sacred books. It is attained by him alone whom It chooses. To such a one Ataman reveals Its own form. [Katha Upanishad Ch-II -23-P-20]

Mundaka Upanishad  :-

This Ataman cannot be attained through study of the Vedas, nor through intelligence, nor through much learning. He who chooses Ataman—by him alone is Ataman attained. It is Ataman that reveals to the seeker Its true nature. [    3 –page-70 Mundaka Upanishad  Upanishads by Nikilanada]

Sri, Ramana Maharishi said: scriptural knowledge is conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all arise.

Ramana Maharishi indicated the direct path to the truth, is the source from which the false arises. Thus the source is the soul/ Ataman, which is the true self. Ataman itself is Brahman.  Thus it is necessary to view the worldview on the base of the source, which the true self, and formless substance and witness of the experience of diversity. Thus deeper inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base, one can acquire the self –knowledge in lesser time and effort.  The unity in diversity is possible only through self-knowledge not by mastering the scriptural knowledge.

One has to bifurcate the physicalized Advitha [religious add-ons]   which is meant for the mass mind set, who are incapable inquire to verifying their inherited beliefs.  But for the seekers truth, to get the pure essence of nonduality which is based on the formless soul. The path of inquiry, analysis and reasoning on the true base, leads one towards the nondual destination.  Therefore, there is need to rectify the seeking base from ego base to soul base to understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth.

Ramana Maharishi says: this self –inquiry is not the critical study of the scriptures. When the source is reached the ego gets merged into it. The result of self-inquiry is the cure for all the sorrows. It is the highest of all the results. There is nothing greater then it.  It only indicates there is no necessity to study the scriptures to acquire self-knowledge. [Page-66-practicle guide to know yourself c/e by A.R.N].

Ramana Maharishi  says:

Q by D:- Is not necessary to study the Vedas or at least the Prasthanatraya [the Bhagavad Gita,Dasopanishad and Brahma Sutras, all with commentaries]to ensure firm realization?

Ramana Maharishi:-No. Do you need all that to see yourself? All that is intellectual wealth, useful in explain doubts and difficulties if others rise them or if you yourself encounter them in the course of thinking. But to attain realization, all that is not necessary. You want fresh water to drink, but you do not require all the water of the river Ganges to quench your thirst. [Page 111/112 of Practical guide to know yourself c/e by A.R.N].

Nonduality does not need the support of any Scripture or Revelation like the Veda. For it is based, not upon the varying theological fancies, which are as numerous as the sands of the sea, but upon reason, the common heritage of all mankind, irrespective of colour or creed or clime.

Seeker of truth has to know that something is inadequate in Buddhist or Advaitic teachings to reach the nondual destination because of the add-ons and adulteration. Thus it becomes difficult to reach destination directed by the Buddha, Sri, Sankara and Sri,Goudapada.

  It is for the seeker to go on his own and remove the obstacle.  The greatest hindrance is mixing religion, god, scriptures, and yogic theories. Moreover, attachment to scriptures, personal god and religious code of conduct keeps one permanently in the grip of duality.

For the same reason Raman Maharshi said:  fortunate are the one who do not lose themselves in the labyrinths of philosophy. Bhagwan says: Take Vedanta, for instance: it speaks of 15 pranas the names and functions of it   which the student is asked to commit memory. Will it not be sufficient if he thought, only one prana does the whole work of maintaining the body? Again the antakaran is said to think, to desire, to will, to reason etc. Why all these details? Has anyone seen antakarana, or all these pranas? Do they really exist? They are conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts end? Why should confusion created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all arise. (GURU RAMANA .By S.S Cohen -vii Danger of philosophy-Page -58-59)

One is seeking truth for himself, thus it is very personal journey of verification. Truth has to be ascertained and proved for his own realization.   Path of wisdom path is independent path nothing to do with the religion and scriptures.  Thus seeker has to indulge in deeper self-search to understand assimilate and realize non-dual truth by avoiding the path of argument and perversion, which leads nowhere.   Share each other’s view with respecting each other and inspiring   everyone.  Thus let us use the precious time to know our true identity which is beyond form, time and space. 

The knower and known and the knowledge are also consciousness

 

The true self is the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is changeless witness of the body and world together. This changeless witness is the awareness. Consciousness exists both ways of "in association with waking or dream or duality and dissociation waking and dream and duality as in deep sleep.

It can remain with or without the waking or dream or duality. When ignorance vanishes through wisdom then the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness. Thus consciousness alone is.

In self-awareness change and changeless are one in essence than only there is self-awareness.  The knower and known and the knowledge are also consciousness. When the self which is consciousness becomes aware of its own formless true nature in the midst of diversity or duality it is called self –awareness.

 Man and his experience of the world is product of ignorance. Thus it is not the man who is in ignorance; it is the formless self, which is in ignorance of its true nature.  When self becomes aware of its true nature than its ignorance vanishes and it alone prevails in its own awareness.   Thus body, senses, intellect, ego, world are mere mirage created out of consciousness.

The consciousness is the maker and the preserver of the mind, which is in the form of universe, and it appears as waking and dream and disappears as deep sleep. The Self-Knowledge is the foundation of all physical based knowledge.

 

By knowing the fact that, the consciousness as the true self of which all three states becomes known? 

Two kinds of knowledge must be known. They are the spiritual Knowledge and the physical knowledge.   Of these two, the physical knowledge is of the worldly life.    And the spiritual [self] Knowledge is that by which the ultimate truth is attained. 

By means of the Self- Knowledge, the Gnani behold everywhere consciousness, which otherwise cannot be seen or seized, which has no root or attributes, no eyes or ears, no hands or feet; which is eternal and omnipresent, all—pervading and extremely subtle; which is imperishable and the source of the mind, which appears as waking and dream and disappears as deep sleep.

As the spider sends forth and draws in its thread, as plants grow on the earth, as hair grows on the head and the body of a living man—so does mind, which is   in the form of  universe arise from the Imperishable consciousness. 

Ignorant , dwelling in darkness, but the intellectuals  in their own conceit and puffed up with vain scholarship, wander about, being afflicted by many ills, like blind men led by the blind. 

People, immersed in ignorance in various ways, flatter themselves, saying: We have accomplished life's purpose. Because these performers of karma do not know the Truth owing to their attachment, they fall from heaven, misery— stricken, when the fruit of their work is exhausted. 

Ignorant, regarding religious rituals and humanitarian works as the highest, do not know ultimate truth. Thinking of their good work, with a motive to get reward for it in the next life or next world    they remain ignorant of higher truth.

Let a seeker, after having examined the mind and its substance that are gained by inquiry, analysis and reasoning, acquire freedom from experiencing the illusion as reality: nothing that is eternal can be produced by what is not eternal. In order that he may understand assimilate and realize that Eternal consciousness. 

The  seeker who has intense urge to know the truth , whose has the humility to listen  and whose is receptive, who does not use his accumulated knowledge as yardstick,  will be able to understand ,assimilate and realize the Self- Knowledge, through which one knows the consciousness, which is formless and nondual in its nature. 

Consciousness is the self—luminous and formless soul, uncreated and existing both within and without. Consciousness is devoid of life, devoid of mind, pure and higher than the supreme Imperishable. 

From consciousness are born the three states.   From consciousness come mind, which contains the oceans and the mountains, rivers of every kind of plants and flavours.

The mind alone is the universe.  And consciousness is the substance and witness of the mind. The consciousness, hidden within the three states — He who knows this ultimate truth will be able to cross the threshold of duality. 

When self is not the form but self is formless than why indulge in attributes based theories which belongs to the form.   Smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, love for our friends family and kids are necessary in practical life within the practical world.   But experience of practical life within the practical world is mere illusion from the ultimate standpoint.  Thus whatever, seen, known, believed and experienced in practical life within the practical world is bound to be illusion. Due to ignorance the illusion is experienced as reality.  Only through wisdom the ignorance the illusion will not prevail as reality.  Thus human goal is to get rid of the ignorance through wisdom. By indulging in physical oriented theories and ideas will give temporary happiness.   

People have the notion that more and more they gratify their senses for attaining worldly pleasures, the happier they will be is not true at all, because they think the physical self is real self, therefore they are unaware of the fact that the self not physical but formless consciousness. The consciousness can stay with or without the mind/’I’. 

It is the illusory sense-pleasure that is responsible for the forgetfulness of the Self, which is in the form of consciousness, which result in one’s sorrows and sufferings.

Suffering is the reminder to search for the remedy to overcome the suffering caused by the ignorance of the true self. Pleasure is the cause of ignorance .but if the real self is realized, and then, illusion will not prevails as reality.  

Mortals become attached to worldly pleasures because they are  in ignorance of the reality of their true existence.

It is the illusion that allures one to enjoy the mundane objects in a futile effort of satisfying the unceasing demands of his senses within the waking or dream. A person within the illusion becomes intoxicated of lust, greed, anger, attachment, false ego, enviousness, stubborn mindedness, and their numerous variations within the illusion.

 Consequently, the individual self gets caught in the illusory cycle of birth, old age, disease, and death within the illusion. This is illusion, by which the consciousness is forgotten; emotional attachment and love of duality is born.

The ignorance of the true self is cause of duality. The duality is cause of illusion. The illusion is the cause of experiencing unreality as reality.

 Because of this pluralistic phenomena of illusory -vision, the material happiness appears to be followed by sorrow. If there is laughter, there is a cry; if there is a birth, there is a death; if there is a rich, there is a poor; so on and so forth.

Everything in the waking or dream experience is in the state of constant flux; there can be found no everlasting happiness. The ego is in the control of evil passions, evil intent, and duality.

Everyone wishes for happiness, pleasures, joy, peace, etc. and none asks for suffering, misery, etc. But in the wake of pleasure, there comes suffering. The pleasure and pain co-exists within the illusion.  People do not understand this. 

In a moment, all pleasures of the physical world within the illusion give sense of reality   because of which the consciousness was forgotten.

The freedom from experiencing the duality as reality comes from identifying the self with consciousness. Instead, due to our ignorance of the consciousness, which is the true Self, one seeks everlasting happiness in never lasting sense objects.

 If one wants freedom from illusory reality then one has to realize the fact that, the consciousness is the true self. Without identifying the consciousness, which is the formless substance and witness of the mind, it is very difficult to acquire nondual wisdom. 

The belief that material wealth is the source of real security in one's life is reality within the falsehood.  In reality, this entire physical world is false and temporary. It is not possible for an impermanent thing can provide another impermanent thing with a permanent security.

Due to physical consciousness, one feels secure if he has money. On the contrary, he feels insecure if he does not have money. False ones love falsehood within the falsehood. People struggle to acquire material wealth in order to get security in material life, but they fail to realize the fact that they and their experience of universe is mere mirage.  When physical consciousness disappears then the mirage vanishes and consciousness alone prevails as nondual existence.

People collect or struggle to collect wealth throughout their lives, but they are unaware of the fact that they and their experience of the universe exist within the falsehood.

 Deluded by doubts and confusion, they think day and night; and try to search the truth, which fits their physical outfit. 

It is not rejecting the life in total, but realizing the fact that, the burden and bondage of the duality is not on the physical self, which is the cause of anxiety in day today life but it is on the soul which is the true self. Know the truth, and that truth sets you free from experiencing the duality [pain and pleasure] as reality.

Until we are unaware of the fact that the self is not physical we simply take the authorship of the experience o duality and experience the illusory pain and pleasure as reality. When we become aware of the fact that, we are not the author of our own experience then only the burden is shifted to the true author which is the soul. The biblical insight says:- Cast the burden on Christ[truth] within and you go free. 

It is the same way rejecting the burden of bondage of the dream after waking, consciously reject the reality of the waking in the midst of waking and live life in celebration of peace and tranquillity of the non-duality in the midst of duality.  Only when you are soul oriented then only the witnessing happens and life [pain and pleasure] becomes a passing show.

Our individual life is nothing to do with ultimate truth or Brahman

The pursuit of truth is very personal journey.  The formless soul , the innermostself is nothing to do with the individual life because ups and down of life is mere illusion. The burden and bondage of life within the dream becomes unreal when waking takes place, similarly one is not affected by the suffering of the world when the self becomes aware of the fact that, it is neither waking entity nor the dream entity. Realizing the ultimate truth will not bring remedy for our present situation in our practical life within the practical world but it definitely brings freedom from experiencing the illusory practical life with the practical world as reality.   

 A Gnani may go in silent mode and say nothing because he knows his body; ego and his experience of the world and the person who is questioning him are also as consciousness.  Thus for him the forms and names are mere illusion created out of consciousness. And he has becomes one with the nature of the true self, which is non-dual silence.     

The physical existence is reality on the base of physical self. Whatever one feels as a person is reality within the physical existence. If physical existence is taken as reality then there is no meaning in seeking truth because he has accepted the physical existence as truth.  Once physical existence is accepted as reality then the experiences within the physical existence prevail as reality. 

My point is we have to view our life from ultimate point of view, then only we become aware its illusory nature.  

The nature of things necessarily unpreventable and uncontrollable when one regards world as world of diversity.  Only when one is able to base his-self from ultimate standpoint and views the experience of diversity [mind] as consciousness only, then he becomes aware of their unreal nature of the physical existence or mind. 

One, who has realized that existence and non-existence and change are in the nature of things, easily finds repose, being unperturbed and free from ignorance.  The pain and pleasure exist as reality because of having the idea of two [duality].  To get rid of the reality of the pain and pleasure one has to find the formless substance of the duality [mind] to realize the whole diversity is created out of single substance, which is consciousness. Realizing the consciousness as ultimate truth, one becomes aware of the unreal nature of the mind, which appears as waking or dream [duality] and disappears as deep sleep [non-duality] .

Serious Seekers who desirous to know the truth, for them nothing bring contentment other then acquiring the self-knowledge. For one who becomes aware of the fact that, the   self is not physical but consciousness becomes aware of the fact that, the physical existence [illusion] has no base, and its reality is in illusory in its nature.    

Our individual life is nothing to do with ultimate truth.   The individual life is reality within the waking or dream.  The three states are mere illusion on the ultimate standpoint. The ultimate truth, which is consciousness, is the substance and witness of the illusion and it is within the illusion and it is always apart and eternal.

 As person perceiving the world one thinks he is born in this world and world existed prior to him, this conviction makes him physical oriented, thus he views and judges the world-view on the physical base therefore his understanding is limited to the physicality. 

Deeper inquiry reveals the fact that, the self is not physical but it is formless [consciousness]. On the base of formless [consciousness] as self, one becomes unreal nature of the mind, which appears as waking or dream.  Thus, the waking is as unreal as dream.  

 When man his world are within the illusion and all his experiences are happenings within the illusion. Until one thinks the physical self as real self, he is bound to be in the realm of duality. The one which knows itself as body with the name is not the body but it is consciousness. When the consciousness withdraws itself then there is neither body, nor the name, nor the world exists. And consciousness alone prevails as non-dual existence. 

Where is the body, where is mind, where is the world; the void; or despair in the true self, which the taintless soul or consciousness. They are or have becomes consciousness.  

One thinks there is mind when he has thoughts, but when thoughts are not considered different from the consciousness, which is the true self, then where is the division into, waking, dream and deep sleep etc.  

Void implies to duality: the universe may not exist but the thought of the second is there.  If one knows there is Void [emptiness/nothingness], then there is something there to be known and know. They are or have become consciousness. 

 

What are scriptures, what is self-knowledge, what is mind without the objects, what is contentment, and where is desirelessness for the formless soul/true self, which is ever devoid of sense of duality. 

What is knowledge? What is ignorance? What is the ego? What is duality? What is mind? What is bondage? What is liberation?  What is definableness to the formless self/soul, which is in the form of consciousness? 

All these appearances are mere mirage, which come and go; hence meaningless to the formless soul/true self. 

The ego based knowledge is not ultimate knowledge because ego based knowledge is dualistic knowledge based on the object [body] as subject. But in non-dualistic Knowledge whatever seems to exist also is consciousness; therefore there is no scope for the existence of the second thing.   

What is past karmas? What is liberation –in this life? and what is that liberation at death? for the birth- less soul, which is  ever formless.  

Nearest state to understand the soul by itself is to eliminate mentally waking and dream as in deep sleep.   Once this is grasped one has to understand everything is consciousness, which is the true self. 

What is the doer or the enjoyer?  What is cessation of thoughts or rising of thoughts? What is immediate perception and its result to, the formless soul, which is ever impersonal.  A Gnani is the one who is never afraid of thinking and knowing all his individual experience and the world to be consciousness. 

What is the world and what is meant by the aspirant for liberation; what is contemplative and what is man of knowledge; what the self is and what liberated self to the formless soul, which is the non-dual essence. 

   

When we analyze the dream experience we find the dream entity, dream world with all people in it appeared as a whole, and the dream reality lasted until waking experience appeared. When one tries to know the truth of his true existence in waking through inquiry, analysis and reasoning, one becomes aware of the fact that, the self is not physical but it is formless soul, which is in the form of consciousness which is the essence of the three states from which the three states are made.  Thus the illusions of the three states are made of one single substance, which is consciousness.  By realizing the formless substance, which is consciousness as self, the ignorance vanishes  and one become aware of the fact that the three states are mere illusion on the standpoint of the formless substance ,which is also the witness of the three states. 

When knows the soul as the true self:-

What are projection and retraction, what are end and means; what are failure and success to the formless soul, which is formless and non-dual in its nature. The mirage appears and merges back into its essence is not an appearance at all. 

What is the knower, the means of knowledge, the object of knowledge; what is anything or nothing to the soul which is ever formless.  Knower, knowledge, object, thing, nothing or any word one may utter is after all they are the words and words have meaning only within the mirage.  The consciousness is ever present in all the three states but as a person, one is unconscious of the consciousness because he thinks the body as his self. 

When all knowing, known and knower are simultaneously mental as in dream what else is there to trouble about understanding them. Because of   considering the waking experience as reality one is incapable of understanding and assimilating the non-dual truth.   

What is the distraction?What is the concentration, dullness ad delusion, happiness and sorrow to the formless soul, which is ever actionless. 

As a person one may be drawn to observe his body and the world, but the Gnani is not disturbed by because they all are consciousness to him. 

 The physical attributes are nothing to do with the soul/self wrongly; all the attributes belong to the ego not the soul.  Identifying the physical attribute to the soul is the cause of the ignorance.

What is relative? What is absolute happiness and misery to the formless soul, which is ever devoid of thought and activity?

If anything has a meaning it is only in duality. Happiness and sorrow are the nature of duality, which is mind, there differences therefore illusory on the standpoint of the formless soul, which is ultimate reality.   

What is illusion? What is ignorance? What are birth, life and death? What is world? What is attachment and what is detachment to the soul/self, which is ever formless.  

The mind and soul are one in essence ultimately. All argument about consciousness never touches it.  The soul is not the ego in this particular body but principle which holds the whole physical existence [universe], which contains everyone and everything known and unknown. All words have no place and thoughts cannot reach. Even the thought of the soul or consciousness is just illusory and contradictory, because the thought and words belong to the world of duality. 

What is activity or inactivity, liberation and bondage to the formless soul/self, which is ever immutable and indivisible.  There is no division into nations, races and colours of kinds of men in wisdom.  It is not enough to but one must always see the formless soul [consciousness] as self and the witness the witness of all the three states and always realize and practice it.   Some people get glimpses of truth and lose it; so it must be established. Such fixidity is the goal. 

What is instruction and scriptural injunction? What is disciple and guru? What indeed is object of life for the formless soul, which is absolute and free from limitation? 

Life is with world. World is within the waking or dream, the illusory limitation. When there is no second other than consciousness, then what is there for the soul /self to attain? But when one thinks the self is physical, then there is various things he will want to get and so be trouble by their lack. Hence don’t wrongly imagine the self to be the body.   

What is existence, nonexistence, unity or duality? What need us there to say more? Noting from the soul because whatever seems to emanate from it, is non-different from itself.  There is no second thing other than the soul, which is in the form of consciousness. One should not mistake self (soul) for the ego. 

Those who assert world is reality, are still in elementary stages of preliminary analysis. The world is reality within the waking experience but the waking experience is mere illusion. The same way the dream world was reality within the dream experience.    The dream became unreal when waking took place same way waking becomes unreal when non-dual wisdom dawns.

There is no need to embrace sanyasa in order to acquire Self-Knowledge.

Sanyasa is not a condition precedent to the attainment of self-knowledge. There is no need to embrace sanyasa in order to acquire self-knowledge. Any householder who has intense urge, receptiveness and humility and ready to drop all the accumulated dross and start a fresh will be able to grasp, understand, assimilate and realize the non-dual truth. 

 Until the seekers attention is fixed on the formless substance and witness of the three states the non-dual truth will not be revealed. 

The individual experiences of birth, life, death and the world are unimportant because they are part of the illusion.   Without the consciousness, the true self, the illusion ceases to exist.   The individual experience of burden and bondage are reality within the illusion but they are unimportant from the ultimate standpoint. 

All the individual experiences of riches and poverty, success and failure, pain and pleasure, desires are nothing to do with the formless self because they are mere illusion created out of consciousness, which is the nature of the self.  Due to ignorance a person within the illusion experiences it as reality.  The self –knowledge is necessary to realize the individual experience within the universe is mere illusion created out of consciousness.   Thus consciousness alone is real and eternal. 

The soul is the ocean of the consciousness. People who ought to know better, people who deemed to generally wise are hunting for pleasure without trying to know the soul, which is the inner most self. The soul or consciousness is the formless substance and witness of the universe or Mind, which appears as waking or dream and disappears as deep sleep. Thus, all the three states are nothing but consciousness because the consciousness pervades all the three states.     

No god can exist without the self, which consciousness. Consciousness is ultimate truth.  And ultimate truth itself is god. 

One has to renounce the three states mentally by realizing their unreal nature and cling to their formless substance and witness, which is real and eternal to realize there is no second thing exist other than consciousness. 

  Strengthening his conviction about the self which is consciousness by realizing the illusory nature of the three states is real renunciation. Reflecting constantly on the formless witness of the three states, leads one to self-awareness. 

In Self –awareness there is unity in diversity. In unity or  oneness there is  neither the day or night nor Sun, Moon, sky or stars nor darkness nor light nor air or water nor the animate and inanimate  remains as reality; only those who have reached that realm realizes the fact that, the  three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness.

Earth and the sky, that land is inhabited by people are reality within the illusion. One who has accomplished Self-Realization, realizes the fact that, there is no truth in their in their physical existence within the universe.

  
Form, time and space have no access there, nor do the sunshine and moonlight exist there but only formless non-dual self-awareness. 

Self-Awareness is not attainable through "hath- yoga" by hath- yogis, nor by ascetics or performers of austere devotion who burn their bodies in the fire ascetic practices or self-mortification. Those who recognize the soul, as true self will be able to enter self-awareness. 

A Gnani sees clearly; he comes to know the true nature of the three states. A Gnani is fully are of the fact that that all the three states are mere mirage created out of consciousness because the formless substance and witness of the three states is consciousness.   The consciousness alone is real and all the three states are falsehood. By mentally clinging to consciousness, which is the true self and dropping the three states, one enters the self-awareness.